20170727 - LCJ School Flooding (hrb)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Jennifer Sellers, a nurse at the at the W.J. Murphy Elementary School, sorts through donated books at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center on Nippersink Rd. in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Gustavo Alvarez, a junior supervisor with ACR Restoration, cleans the walls of a fourth grade classroom to get it ready for remodeling after it flooded at the W.J. Murphy Elementary School on Greenwood Drive in Round Lake. The classroom had four feet of water in it after the flood.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Coltyn Tranberg, 10, of La Crosse, Wis., gives a good job trophy sticker to Susan Gaylor, library media assistant for Village Elementary School, as she sorts donated books at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Rhonda Heatherly, a digital age learning coach for Indian Hill Elementary School, works on sorting boxes of donated books at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center on Nippersink Rd. in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Susan Gaylor, library media assistant, looks at the books donated as she sorts them at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Wood panels were put up to block entry into the first section of the library that had been flooded at the W.J. Murphy Elementary School on Greenwood Drive in Round Lake. August 21st is the start date of school and the renovation work on the library will not be finished. Over a one hundred organizations and individuals have donated books for the library that had been flooded.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Jenni Etherington, librarian, Jessica Rodriguez, library media assistant, both from W. J. Murphy Elementary School, and Rhonda Heatherly, a digital age learning coach from Indian Hill Elementary School, sort through boxes of donated books at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Jenni Etherington, librarian for the W.J. Murphy Elementary School, shows some of the donated items such as books, a friends necklace, a kazoo, stickers, games and notepads, the school has received at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Jessica Rodriguez, a library media assistant, sorts donated books and puts them into boxes at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Jenni Etherington, librarian, and Jessica Rodriguez, library media assistant, both work at the W.J. Murphy Elementary School, sort donated books for the library at their school at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A plastic tube of hot air runs through the gym/cafeteria to dry out the water soaked into the building after it flooded at the W.J. Murphy Elementary School on Greenwood Drive in Round Lake. The dark areas of the brick show how high the water came up to where the cafeteria tables once stood.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Donated books from Lincolnshire School District 103 sit on the floor waiting to be sorted at the Round Lake School District’s Early Education Center on Nippersink Rd. in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A huge dehumidifier pumps hot air into a side entrance of the W.J. Murphy Elementary School to dry out any water left from the building after being flooded on Greenwood Drive in Round Lake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media The entrance to the W.J. Murphy Elementary School has a large dehumidifier pumping hot air into the building to dry out the classrooms for renovation after the school had been flooded on Greenwood Drive in Round Lake.